ATF Death Watch 24: See You In The Funny Papers
I used to tell my ex, "never tick off a songwriter." I mean, think about Sting's first wife and "Every Breath You Take." He'll be watching her to the ends of time, every time...
ATF Death Watch 23: Circle the Wagons, Shoot the Virtuous
The ritual executions have begun inside the hallowed halls of the ATF, where the echos of jack-booted thuggery reigns supreme. FoxNews reports that ATF whistleblower Agent Vince Cefalu was served with his notice he'd...
ATF Death Watch 22: WaPo Prescription for ATF: More Money, More Power
It's not easy carrying water for big government these days. Especially with all the manifest failures staring the public right in the face. A flack has to twist and contort himself into all kinds...
ATF Death Watch 21: You Know You’re Toast When The Libs Start Mocking You.
With a tip o' the TTAG cap (available in the TTAG Store for a reasonable $19.95 + S&H) to founding TTAG Armed Intelligentsia member Bill Montgomery (who we all wish would send us some...
ATF Death Watch 20: Hell No, I Won’t Go!
Forget what we said earlier, about ATF Acting Head (case) Kenneth Melson going gently into that good night. Apparently, he's circled the wagons, barricaded himself in his bunker, and put out a call to...
ATF Death Watch 19: Mexico Needs Guns; Why The ATF Got it Totally Backwards
Like any long-running mainstream media meme, the Gunwalker scandal has its own theme song: Oops!... I Did It Again. The MSM are selling the ATF's malfeasance as an enormous f up, wherein the same...
ATF Death Watch 18: New York Times on Gunwalker: “Lalalalalalalalalalalalala”
"If Congressional Republicans are really intent on getting to the bottom of an ill-conceived sting operation along the border by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives," nytimes.com opines, "they should call President...
ATF Death Watch 17: From the Horse’s Mouth
Despite ridicule from the bloggers who broke the ATF Gunwalker scandal, I've continued to suggest that there's drug money involved in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (and Really Big Fires) anti-gun...
ATF Death Watch 16: Show Us The Guns!
I enjoyed watching Congressman Darrel Issa raking Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Ron Weich over the coals for his agency's failure to comply with requests for information about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms...
ATF Death Watch 15 – And Another One Rides the Bus
The Wall St. Journal is reporting this AM that, according to the proverbial "unnamed sources," BAFTE (and sometimes Really Big Fires) acting director Kenneth Melson will be joining the history team sometime within the...
ATF Death Watch 14: Mexican Lawyer’s Killers Used ATF-Enabled Guns
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"Two guns sold to a Mexican cartel and used in the high-profile kidnapping and murder of a Mexican lawyer last year were purchased under the U.S. Justice Department's failed anti-gun trafficking program Operation...
ATF Deathwatch 13: And then, they make a movie about you.
What do Giovanni Ribisi and David Koresh have in common? For that matter, what do Adrien Brody, Kurt Russell, Sharon Stone and the ATF have in common? Well sir, this fall, the indie pic...